my current hottest take is basically this
being anti-crypto is anti-trans
being anti-crypto is anti-trans
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henry
quick question. do you think that trans people should be able to buy grey market hrt online?
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The 'turning everything into a tradeable asset' bit you mention really bothers me
solution: let's do an xz attack on bitcoin to rm -rf /* every node /j
The ones built for currencies that are actually intended to function as cash for the internet.
not for everyone, not everywhere
and if you want injections, and you'd often very much want injections, then literally-literally all the catgirls cooking estrogen only take crypto
i wouldnt be able to use the internet properly w/o crypto because my country is isolated from traditional banking (except for the govt because they still have resources to sell :^), and that's kinda needed to pay for servers to bypass govt censorship
I guess I'm more hopeful around winning the political game, than the money game, and imo that's what it comes down to
The taxman will get you regardless, unless you use cash.
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It would be nice for the UI to alert people of this. cc @samuel.bsky.team
when you hear about crypto being an "unregulated wild west" that is fearmongering from authoritarians